Every Once Upon A Time Movie Ranked Worst To Best

The latest in the long line of Once Upon A Time movies sees one of Hollywood's pre-eminent filmmaking voices taking on the mythic past of Hollywood itself.

A story of cowboy actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio)'s decline as an analogy for the end of the old Hollywood Golden Age and the Manson Family's murder of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) as ushering in the darker, morally ambiguous New Hollywood, this Once Upon A Time flips history on its head with a revisitionist fairytale.

The movie takes its time getting to its radical rewriting of Hollywood history, though, being mostly a film that is content just to hang out with Dalton on set or with his stuntman sidekick Cliff Booth (an Oscar-winning Brad Pitt).

On the one hand, this is not vintage Quentin Tarantino in that it doesn't quite hit the heights of perfection of, say, Pulp Fiction. On the other, a film about old school B-movie stars shooting the sh*t about old school B-movies before an extreme burst of violence may well be peak Tarantino.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood's long, drawn out scenes of making TV westerns are self-indulgent, but it is also in this self-indulgence that Tarantino really shines.